Hand-car



(No Model.)

W. H. ENGELS.

BAND GAR. I

No. 408,225. Patents A g. 6, 1889.

UNITED STATES 'PATENT QFFICE.

IVILLIAM II. ENGELS, OF FARMINGTON, ARKANSAS.

HAN D-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 408,225, dated August 6, 1889.

Application filed May ll, 1889. Serial No. SlOAlG. (No model.)

To (ell whom t may con/carn.-

Be it known that I, XVILLIAM H. ENGELS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Farinington, in the county of lVashington and State of Arkansas, have inventcd anew and useful Hand-Car, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to mprovemcnts in hand-cars; and it consists in certaiu novel features hereinafter described and claimed.

Iu the accompanying1 drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of my improved device. Figa 2 is a side clevation of the same with a part brokon away.

The frame A of my improved hand-car may bc of any desired construction, and the axles B, on which the cariying-wheels C are mounted, are journaled in the said frame. Adjacent to one of the axles I arrange in the frame a transverse shaft D, and on the said shaft and the axle I secure the intermeshing` gearwhcels E E, as clearly shown. At the opposite ends of the shaft and axle I secure the spur-pinions F F, and the levers G G are loosely mounted on the said shaft and axle adjacent to said spur-pinions and project up- The lower ends of the 1e-- ward therefrom. vers are bifurcated, so that they will fit over the spnr-pinions, and within these bifurcations I pivotally mount the reversible pawls H, which engag'e the said spur-pinions in the operation of the device. The upper ends of the levers are connected by a connectin'g-bar I, so as to secure a simultaneous movement of the levers, and one of the levers is provided with a handle J, as clearly shown.

In practice the pawls are arranged so as to hang,` in opposite directions, whereby one of said pawls will be caused to engage a spurpnion when the levers are moved in one direction, and when the levers are moved in the opposite direction the said pawl will slip over the pinion and the other pawl will engage its pinion. A continuous rotary motion is imparted to the axle through the gear-wheels secured thereto and the transvcrse shaft, and the car thus novcd forward. Then it is desired to move the car in the opposite direction, the pawls are reversed and the levers reciprocated, as before. The pawls being` reversed, they will cngage the pinions when movn1 in the same direotion as that in which formerly they slipped over the pinions, and conseqnently the car will be driven in the reverse direction.

From the foregoing,` description it will be seen that I have provided a very simple arrangement of devices by which a hand-car can be easily driven at a high speed and with a slight force.

The device is also applicable to velocipedes and similar machines.

llaving thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with the aXle and the transverse shaft, ot' the ntermeshing,` gearwheels secured thereon, the spur-pinions at the en ds of the axle and the shaft, the levers loosely mounted on the axle and the shaft and having their lower ends bifurcated, the connecting-rod between the upper ends of the levers, and the reversible pawls pivoted within the bifurcations at the lowcr ends of said levers and engaging the spur-pinions, as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing` as' my own I have hereto affixed my signature in prescnce of two witnesses.

WILLIAM I-I. ENGELS.

lVitnesses:

II. I.. CRoUoI-r, I-I. P. GREUsE. 

